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President Clinton threatened to unleash a barrage of vetoes if Republicans insist on slashing key domestic programs and fail to take more seriously his gentler,10-year plan to balance the budget. "I will continue to act, alone if necessary," he declared at a speech to delegates of Boys Nation, a high school good-government program in which he once took part. "There are a lot of things being done here which will violate and undermine our chances to achieve common ground." The President suggested the GOP was leaving him little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills...
...kinder, gentler, larger Clarence Thomas. Here's a clue: Brian Grazer, producer of this actor's current movie, says, "From what I know of him, he's not really approachable. But when I saw him like this ... there's a sweetness that comes out." When the actor had heard Grazer was remaking a comedy classic, he called and pitched himself doing the lead-but with the twist of being extremely obese instead of just buck-toothed. "He was so passionate, I told him we'd do it right then," says Grazer. Give up? It's EDDIE MURPHY updating Jerry Lewis...
...more than that. Like this one. Pocahontas takes a while to get going, but when it does it becomes a wistful meditation on lost love in what it depicts as the last age of innocence. The lovers Pocahontas (voiced by Irene Bedard) and John Smith are from a gentler, more serious movie era; and so, to its credit, is this film. The picture has its light moments and patentedly adorable characters, notably Meeko the raccoon, a most fastidious glutton with a lot of personality. But Pocahontas lacks the menagerie of cuties that filled The Little Mermaid and The Lion King...
Nevertheless, First Lady Hillary Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Islamabad on Saturday determined to turn toward gentler issues. Her two-day sojourn, part of a 10-day sweep through Southwest Asia, is intended, said President Clinton, to show that "there is truly a human dimension to politics, policy and diplomacy." Her agenda will take her and daughter Chelsea to schools, mosques and villages where she can cast a spotlight on issues of women, education and health care. The real diplomacy of repairing tattered U.S.-Pakistan relations will be left to Bhutto, who will come...
...adds up to the most radical program of any serious candidate for President. Alexander is well equipped to sell it. He is statesmanlike and disciplined; charming and even tempered-everything, in short, that Perot is not. Republican theorist Bill Kristol calls Alexander "a gentler, saner Perot" who can run against Washington without scaring voters. Alexander too offers what Dole and Gramm cannot: executive experience, as a two-term Governor who improved the schools and roads of his state while attracting huge auto plants that created thousands of high-paying jobs...